Artistic Statement
I believe art—particularly the performing arts—serves a critical role in a culture and society.
In terms of culture, art makes a culture. The expression of a community’s values can best be seen in the art it celebrates. And in terms of society, art has the unique role of imagining what comes not next, but after. If we’re headed toward a brave new world, it is the function of artists and their art to imagine what that brave new world may look like, what it might sound like, and how it is built.
I treat my own work as a sandbox where I can safely and humanely experiment with the limits of human impulse, civil disobedience, and the upheaval of the systems we’ve come to rely on.